Life in the Iranian-Kurdish village of Palangan - In pictures

Amos Chapple is a New Zealand photographer with Lonely Planet. Over the winter he visited Iran's Kurdish region to photograph the near-vertical Palangan village. He has given his pictures exclusively to
the Guardian's Iran blog

A man in the doorway of his home in Palangan. Houses are built in a steep gorge which allows for the rooftop of one house to serve as the yard for the house above. Rooftops are kept flat with stone rollers

Two shepherds lead Palangan's sheep out to pasture. Sheep are housed overnight throughout the village but each morning all the village's sheep are rounded up and led out into the hills as a single flock